Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton have been plagued by endless speculations about when they will tie the knot. Last week German aristocrat Prince Julius Eduard von Anhalt – a distant cousin of Prince Charles – claimed the pair will formally announce their engagement this autumn and marry next July.

Sources have now told the Daily Mail that secret discussions have indeed taken place about the possibility of a royal wedding next summer.  According to well-placed sources, royal aides have made ‘discreet overtures’ to senior personnel at Westminster Abbey to hold a wedding there on the second weekend in August next year.

Although nothing has been set in stone, talks are sufficiently advanced for the issue to have been raised when the Queen and Prince Philip visited the Abbey on an official engagement in May, insiders say.

A senior source at the Abbey said: ‘A date has been earmarked for a royal wedding next year. It is very tentative at the moment but currently the second weekend in August has been mooted.’

‘Only the most senior personnel here have been privy to the discussions but my understanding is that the issue was raised when the Queen visited here back in May. Many commentators have ruled out Westminster Abbey because of the link with the prince’s late mother, but he has attended several official functions here in recent years and it would not put him off in the slightest.’

A St James’s Palace spokesman said: ‘It’s not true that enquiries have been made. The only two people who know anything about their future plans are Prince William and Kate Middleton.’

Article: Daily Mail

I do hope Kate Middleton has a cunning plan

And as a response to the above rumour, Barbara Ellen wrote this for The Guardian.  It’s a cheeky entry about why should get out while the going’s still good.

“I don’t particularly care for Kate Middleton. Like so many in the royal swirl, she’s always appeared safe, dull, a cookie-cutter, far too careful not to frighten the corgis. That said, there’s been something undeniably nasty about Middleton’s treatment that says a lot about supposedly modern classless Britain.”

“If there is a big day, the best-case scenario would be for Kate to make it even bigger by jilting William at the altar and running away, out of the royal hell forever, screaming as she goes, loud and proud: “I’m a commoner, get me out of here!”

Article: The Guardian

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